Vintage 2FM Discussion Thread

Cliff Walker · 31-07-2016 11:27AM

Colm and jim jim did do an extra hour until 10 tho the day ryan died, as it was normal for his stand ins to only do two hours.

Red Fred · 31-07-2016 11:41AM

Cliff Walker wrote: »

Colm and jim jim did do an extra hour until 10 tho the day ryan died, as it was normal for his stand ins to only do two hours.

Fair enough. Obviously my memory is a little bit "hazy"!!

ford fiesta · 16-05-2017 08:51PM

I have uploaded 4 videos of the 15th birthday in 1994 on "Network 2" television, can upload better video and sound quality another time, but for now.....:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdPl0IMd774

Clonmel1000 · 16-05-2017 10:36PM

I have fond memories of 2fm also in the late 80s. Did Lorcan Murray present a show 10 to midnight with a class tracks feature on it whereby a secondary school class would send in a list of songs and he'd pick 3 to play.

Declan A Walsh · 16-05-2017 10:37PM

ford fiesta wrote: »

I have uploaded 4 videos of the 15th birthday in 1994 on "Network 2" television, can upload better video and sound quality another time, but for now.....:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdPl0IMd774

I remember tuning in around that time. I remember the novelty of having a different presenter each hour. Pour old Duty Rhodes, the new guy, had to mind the place that evening as the rest of the crew went out and celebrated!

Larry Gogan and Dave Fanning are the only regular presenters left from 1994. Aidan Leonard is still there but mainly as a producer on 2FM.

Drag00n79 · 18-05-2017 07:49PM

I remember Paul Clarke doing a mid morning show on 2fm. Maybe around 1980/81?

ford fiesta · 18-05-2017 08:08PM

ford fiesta wrote: »

I have uploaded 4 videos of the 15th birthday in 1994 on "Network 2" television, can upload better video and sound quality another time, but for now.....:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdPl0IMd774

Gerry Ryan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00gNQ3kAqJw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdJBDferxSU

Larry Gogan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV4bD7RrkoU

Declan A Walsh · 19-05-2017 12:47AM

Drag00n79 wrote: »

I remember Paul Clarke doing a mid morning show on 2fm. Maybe around 1980/81?

I remember his show - it was there from 1979. It's a long time since he was with the RTE organisation. For most he is associated with UTV over the years - presenter, newsreader and even continuity announcer!

Aside: many years later, Phantom had a deejay called Paul Clarke in its pirate days. When it went legit, he went by his real name of Aidan Lynch!

Another name from 2FM's early days was Paul Blanchfield - it's on that schedule. Whatever happened to him?

Looking back at that schedule, I see Gerry Ryan was on Saturdays mid-morning to lunchtime!

Joe_ Public · 19-05-2017 01:04AM

Not sure if the Pat Kenny Album show was the same one co-presented by BP Fallon, but I'm sure I remember them doing a show together which reviewed new singles and albums with people calling in to give their two cents.

ford fiesta · 19-05-2017 01:51AM

Joe_ Public wrote: »

Not sure if the Pat Kenny Album show was the same one co-presented by BP Fallon, but I'm sure I remember them doing a show together which reviewed new singles and albums with people calling in to give their two cents.

Pat Kenny was there on his own. BP may have been a reviewer at times. But BP got his own show in mid 80s on a Saturday (at around 6pm) the BP Fallon Orchestra where he would interview a music artist.

Gerry Ryan on Lights Out did get callers to phone in to review new singles and apparently thats where Bill O'Donovan got the idea to move him to mornings for the 3 hour talk show.

Joe_ Public · 19-05-2017 02:18AM

ford fiesta wrote: »

Pat Kenny was there on his own. BP may have been a reviewer at times. But BP got his own show in mid 80s on a Saturday (at around 6pm) the BP Fallon Orchestra where he would interview a music artist.

Gerry Ryan on Lights Out did get callers to phone in to review new singles and apparently thats where Bill O'Donovan got the idea to move him to mornings for the 3 hour talk show.

Mustn't have been with Kenny then, but Fallon did have a singles or album review show with guest reviewers from the general public each night. Could have been with Dave Fanning, my memory is a bit sketchy on that. I only recall it because a friend of mine was on as a reviewer one night and there was another occasion when Julian Gough, of Toasted Heretic fame, made a telling contribution and regularly had both of the hosts in stitches.

ford fiesta · 30-05-2017 08:53PM

38 years old tomorrow.

cml387 · 30-05-2017 09:52PM

ford fiesta wrote: »

Pat Kenny was there on his own. BP may have been a reviewer at times. But BP got his own show in mid 80s on a Saturday (at around 6pm) the BP Fallon Orchestra where he would interview a music artist.

Gerry Ryan on Lights Out did get callers to phone in to review new singles and apparently thats where Bill O'Donovan got the idea to move him to mornings for the 3 hour talk show.

I remember Gerry at night!

One "expert" brought in to debate some topic or other confidently stated that "You know, Lucozade causes cancer".
There was a swift cut to an advertising break and a chastened Gerry assured the public that there was no substance in this allegation.

Joe Duffy. · 08-10-2017 10:20PM

30 years ago he was on weekend's at 6pm, the same shift Will Leahy does now https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/21768357_2073666869528259_7369689548424637736_n.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoiYiJ9&oh=62d5a304b98e5f2533578d3de9a8c0de&oe=5A450070

MikeyTaylor · 08-10-2017 10:53PM

Joe Duffy. wrote: »

30 years ago he was on weekend's at 6pm, the same shift Will Leahy does now https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/21768357_2073666869528259_7369689548424637736_n.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoiYiJ9&oh=62d5a304b98e5f2533578d3de9a8c0de&oe=5A450070

Interesting weekday schedule. Marty Whelan on breakfast (returned from 2005-07), Jim O'Neill on drivetime, Barry Lang in what'd become Gerry Ryan's slot, Ian Dempsey on lunchtime and Larry Gogan on mid-afternoons. Followed by Fenton, Fanning and Ryan through the night!

Ursus Horribilis · 09-10-2017 12:07AM

And Philip Cawley was on 2FM's books. Didn't know that!

ButtersSuki · 09-10-2017 12:28PM

Joe Duffy. wrote: »

30 years ago he was on weekend's at 6pm, the same shift Will Leahy does now https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/21768357_2073666869528259_7369689548424637736_n.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoiYiJ9&oh=62d5a304b98e5f2533578d3de9a8c0de&oe=5A450070

That line up is so bad and dated it looks like 2fm's current schedule.

mrsdewinter · 09-10-2017 02:44PM

What a blast from the past! It's mad to think that Poparama had already been dropped from the schedules. Now I feel *really* old.

ford fiesta · 09-10-2017 06:35PM

Ursus Horribilis wrote: »

And Philip Cawley was on 2FM's books. Didn't know that!

See Gerry Stephens (Stevens) / Lang on there too !

Fuzzy Clam · 09-10-2017 06:59PM

mrsdewinter wrote: »

What a blast from the past! It's mad to think that Poparama had already been dropped from the schedules. Now I feel *really* old.

According to that schedule, Poparama was still on at 8 am on Sunday.

Gheadphone · 13-01-2018 08:56PM

Good ould JK. He was a great man for some Sacred Reich, i remember this track in particular, Just Like That from 1993

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsNsCx4aZco

seachto7 · 15-01-2018 06:28PM

Used to listen every week

Arghus · 16-01-2018 03:08AM

It was crazy when you think back to the time around '00-'03 when the likes of nu-metal and so on was blowing up and getting loads of youngsters like myself into metal and all things heavy that there was basically nothing vaguely resembling metal to be heard on the radio. I used to listen to 2FM late at night quite a lot back then - pre-internet and all that! - and I would never hear any of the stuff that I listened too.And that stuff was immensely popular: there were "moshers" and metal-heads everywhere. I'm not saying that, looking back now, the music was any good really, but it sure meant a lot to young music fans at the time. But largely as far as Irish radio was concerned music heavier than the odd Smashing Pumpkins tune didn't exist. Talk about keeping their finger on the pulse of the nation.

I do remember occasionally JK used to fill in in the odd graveyard slot and he'd play stuff you'd never, ever, hear on 2FM any other time. I still remember him playing The Grudge by Tool one random night and being thrilled just to hear it on the radio. Top Bloke.

thejuggler · 17-01-2018 01:52PM

Not my genre but I remember Zag (aka Mick O'Hara - later to host on Phantom FM) used to popup occasionally as guest presenter

Tabnabs · 17-01-2018 01:56PM

Arghus wrote: »

. But largely as far as Irish radio was concerned music heavier than the odd Smashing Pumpkins tune didn't exist. Talk about keeping their finger on the pulse of the nation.

If you were lucky enough to live in Dublin, there was an excellent pirate radio scene in the 90s including the likes of Alice's Restaurant (went on to be XFM), Radio Active and later on, Phantom. There was plenty of metal to be heard, you just had to know where to dial it in.

Arghus · 17-01-2018 10:06PM

Tabnabs wrote: »

If you were lucky enough to live in Dublin, there was an excellent pirate radio scene in the 90s including the likes of Alice's Restaurant (went on to be XFM), Radio Active and later on, Phantom. There was plenty of metal to be heard, you just had to know where to dial it in.

I was a country bumpkin - no such options round here!

Mossy Monk · 19-01-2018 01:50PM

I remember he played a Metallica concert one time and played So What with no cuts. Woodstock I think it was.

Tabnabs · 19-01-2018 01:54PM

In fairness to him, Dave Fanning was no stranger to metal either. I have a copy of Iron Maiden at Donington Park on tape somewhere up in the attic!

ford fiesta · 19-01-2018 02:50PM

Is his show the JK experience still on digital station RTE 2XM?.
No sign of it on the schedule.

andy1249 · 13-02-2018 02:01PM

Long shot but does anyone remember the two instrumental tunes they used to play right before programming started for the day?
If so, does anyone know what they were called?

One of them sounded like a great time at some mexican festival.

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